Sentences with phrase «halcyon years»

It was during IBB's halcyon years, of military power without responsibility; and endless wayward experimentation, that his junta dubbed political transition.

The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015) A halcyon year, 2015, for the re-emergence of the gallows - humourous Australian Gothic!

The year 2000 was that halcyon year in which this artist won the Tate's Turner Prize, Britain's postmodern spectacle of diminished expectations.

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Admittedly, it's been a long year, but perhaps you remember the halcyon days of 2016, when Arizona grandmother Wanda Dench sent out a group text reminding her grandchildren to show up for Thanksgiving.

Coach Mike Holmgren of the Packers, who were an ascendant 9 - 7 last year, thinks wistfully of the halcyon days of... 1992.

Van Persie has been the main man this year at Old Trafford with his goals and the consistent basis upon which they arrived prior to the last month, keeping Manchester United ticking over in a way they have not been able to do since the halcyon days of Cristiano Ronaldo.

But, by gum, it sure sounds like it allows these Gen Z kids with their SnapDabs and their Vape Drives to return to the halcyon days of our own childhoods when we all walked over railroad trestles looking for dead bodies and rolled inside old tires up to the old Radley place and tricked other kids into whitewashing fences... and we liked it.Arkansas considered a similar bill last year and rejected it.

All the way back in the halcyon days of 2011, when proud centrist Andrew Cuomo reached a tax deal with Republicans in the State Senate, exempting private schools, small businesses, and other groups from having to pay the payroll mobility tax, which put $ 320 million into the MTA's pockets every year.

During the halcyon days of his first four - year term, Governor Andrew Cuomo infamously pronounced during a radio interview: «I am the government.»

It's a long, bloated, but entirely enjoyable 2 - hour look at the last years of the halcyon days of the Drexel North and what it meant to be a marathoid during this era!

Since the halcyon days of John Hughes thirty years -LSB-...]

Latest NAEP Results: Obama Administration Fails U. S. Students By Paul E. Peterson Student gains registered over the Obama years were trivial at best, far short of those accomplished during what must now be referred to as the halcyon days of the George W. Bush Administration.

Back in the halcyon era that was May, during the last weeks of the school year, I was invited to watch a group of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) teachers talk about evaluations.

We've essentially traveled full circle back to the halcyon days of global government price controls / fixing — except this time» round we've achieved it on a far grander scale, in effect compressing decades into mere years.

After all, I've been writing about Ecto Cooler for close to fifteen years, dating back to that «Ecto Cooler Bible» from the halcyon days of X-Entertainment.

Even the firm's revenue per lawyer grew 7 percent last year, to $ 1.07 million, topping even the roughly $ 1.05 million figure collected during the halcyon days of 2007.